These white men-come to the Watchinangoes (Mexicans), to take the hides of their oxen, the wool of their sheep.

They would come to us, if we had anything to offer them.

Let us then call them, for we have the hides of thousands of buffaloes; we have the furs of the beaver and the otter; we have plenty of copper in our mountains, and of gold in our streams.
"Now, hear me.

When a Shoshone chief thinks that the Crows will attack his lodge, he calls his children and his nephews around him.

A nation can do the same.